A car crash takes out Colonel Jessa Strazzer's husband and unborn son. A few months later, a box arrives filled with things from her husband. Items that indicate that someone killed him deliberately because he uncovered a plot to kill millions of people. Can Jessa stop the plot? Can Jessa prevent anyone else from being killed?

Courtesan, actress, medium -- spy.
1805: Europe stands poised on the brink of war.
Elza is content with her life in the demi-monde, an actress and courtesan in the glittering society of France's First Empire, but when her former lover is arrested for treason, Elza is blackmailed into informing on her friends and associates. She must become the secret agent of Napoleon Bonaparte!